MU Health Care Orthopaedic Surgeon to Attend Prestigious Grant Workshop Series

Daniel London, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in hand and upper extremity surgeries with the Missouri Orthopaedic Institute, has been formally accepted to attend the prestigious U.S. Bone and Joint Initiative’s Young Investigators Initiative and Workshop Program from October 23-25 in Chicago, IL.

London will attend the workshop as one of two fully sponsored members of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH). The two-day workshop is designed to provide early-career clinical investigators an opportunity to work with experienced researchers in our field and to assist them in securing funding and other survival skills required for pursuing an academic career. The United States Bone and Joint Initiative (USBJI) is dedicated to raising public awareness and to increasing research of musculoskeletal diseases in the United States.

In addition, London will also attend the Orthopaedic Research Society’s (ORS) Grant Writing Workshop Program as an ASSH-sponsored attendee.

London is an accomplished researcher with more than 45 peer-reviewed publications, six book chapters and over 60 presentations at research meetings. Part of his research focus includes patient reported outcome measures and to better understand how patients answer questionnaires and what level of change matters from a patient perspective.